Mihail Šiškin
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Mikhail Shishkin
Михаил Шишкин
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Mikhail Shishkin
Mikhail Pavlovich Shishkin (Russian: Михаил Павлович Шишкин, born 18 January 1961) is a Russian writer.
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Mikhail Shishkin was born in 1961 in Moscow.
Shishkin studied English and German at Moscow State Pedagogical Institute. After graduation he worked as a street sweeper, road worker, journalist, school teacher, and translator. He debuted as a writer in 1993, when his short story "Calligraphy Lesson" was published in Znamya magazine. Since 1995 he has lived in Zurich, Switzerland. He averages one book every five years.
Shishkin openly opposes the current Russian government, calling it a "corrupt, criminal regime, where the state is a pyramid of thieves" when he pulled out of representing Russia at the 2013 Book Expo in the United States.
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Jon Fosse
Jon Olav Fosse was born in Haugesund, Norway and currently lives in Bergen. He debuted in 1983 with the novel Raudt, svart (Red, black). His first play, Og aldri skal vi skiljast, was performed and published in 1994. Jon Fosse has written novels, short stories, poetry, children's books, essays and plays. His works have been translated into more than forty languages. He is widely considered as one of the world's greatest contemporary playwrights. Fosse was made a chevalier of the Ordre national du Mérite of France in 2007. Fosse also has been ranked number 83 on the list of the Top 100 living geniuses by The Daily Telegraph.
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Andrey Kurkov
Andrey Kurkov is a Russian and Ukrainian writer who writes in Russian (fiction) and Ukrainian (non-fiction).
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Kurkov was born in the small town of Budogoszcz, Russia, on April 23, 1961. When he was young, his family moved to Kyiv, Ukraine. In 1983 Kurkov graduated from the Kyiv Pedagogical Academy of Foreign Languages and later also completed a training in Japanese translation.
Among Kurkov's most famous Russian novels are 'Smert postoronnego' (1996, translated into English in 2001 under the title 'Death and the Penguin') and 'Zakon ulitki' (2002, translated into English in 2005 as 'Penguin lost)'. Kurkov's only Ukrainian non-fiction book is 'Ruh "Emanus": istoriya solidarnosti' (2017). -
Pirkko Saisio
See also Saisio's pseudonyms: Jukka Larsson, Eva Wein
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Pirkko Saisio (s. 16. huhtikuuta 1949 Helsinki) on suomalainen kirjailija, näyttelijä ja ohjaaja. Hän on kirjoittanut myös salanimillä Jukka Larsson ja Eva Wein. Saisiolla on laaja kirjallinen tuotanto, joka romaanien ja näytelmien ohella käsittää monenlaisia tekstejä elokuvakäsikirjoituksista aina balettilibretoihin asti. Saisio on kirjoittanut näytelmiä niin teatteriin kuin televisioonkin, ja lisäksi hän ohjaa ja näyttelee itsekin. Saisio suoritti Suomen Teatterikoulun näyttelijän tutkinnon 1975 ja toimi Teatterikorkeakoulun dramaturgian professorina 1997–2002. -
Solvej Balle
Solvej Balle er en særegen stemme i dansk litteratur. Hun var del af en gruppe hovedsageligt kvindelige forfattere, som debuterede eller slog deres navne fast i begyndelsen af 90’erne. Siden Balle debuterede i 1986 med romanen ”Lyrefugl”, har hun udgivet ganske få værker, så det var en overraskelse, da hun i 2020 annoncerede det ambitiøse og filosofiske syvbindsværk ”Om udregning af rumfang”, som hun i 2022 modtog Nordisk Råds Litteraturpris for, for de første fire bind
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Frode Grytten
Frode Grytten (born December 11, 1960 in Odda) is a Norwegian writer and journalist. He is the author of the Brage award-winning novel Bikubesong ('Song of the Beehive'), and other collections of short stories and poetry. His works have been translated into Swedish, Danish, Finnish, German, Dutch, Albanian, Croatian and Chinese.
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Grytten is a native of the industrial town Odda, which often features in his work.
As a journalist he has mainly worked for Bergens Tidende, the local newspaper of Bergen, Norway. He is also writing for the Oslo-based national newspaper Dagbladet. -
Nina Lykke
Nina Lykke (f. 1965) debuterte i 2010 med den kritikerroste novellesamlingen Orgien, og andre fortellinger. Romanen Oppløsningstendenser (2013) fikk strålende anmeldelser og ble kortlistet til P2-lytternes romanpris. I 2016 fikk Lykke sitt store gjennombrudd med romanen Nei og atter nei (2016), som vant Ungdommens kritikerpris og ble en salgssuksess i Sverige og Tyskland så vel som i Norge. Full spredning. En legeroman er Nina Lykkes fjerde bok og for den vant hun Brageprisen 2019.
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Hanna-Riikka Kuisma
Hanna-Riikka Kuisma is a Finnish Finlandia Prize nominated author who is known for her novels that explore the dark sides of the human mind and our modern society.
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Maria Stepanova
Maria Mikhailovna Stepanova is a Russian poet, novelist, and journalist. She is the current editor of Colta.ru, an online publication specializing in arts and culture. In 2005, she won the prestigious Andrei Bely Prize for poetry.
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Anna Kontula
Anna Kontula (b. 1977) is a sociologist, author and Left Allience parliament member living in Valkeakoski, Finland. She is known as a debater challenging mainstream thinking.
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In her recent books, Kontula has dealt with, among other things, social classes, parliamentarism, the revolution in labor and the Israel-Palestine issue.
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Timo Miettinen
Timo Miettinen (s. 26. maaliskuuta 1981) on eurooppalaiseen filosofiaan, politiikkaan ja aatehistoriaan erikoistunut akatemiatutkija ja Helsingin yliopiston dosentti.
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Miettinen väitteli tohtoriksi vuonna 2013. Hänen väitöskirjansa kuului filosofian alaan ja käsitteli Euroopan ideaa Edmund Husserlin ajattelussa (The Idea of Europe in Husserl's Phenomenology: A Study in Generativity and Historicity). Hän on väitöksensä jälkeen tutkinut muun muassa saksalaisen talouspolitiikan historiaa sekä modernin ajan Eurooppa-käsityksiä. Hän työskenteli vuonna 2023 vierailevana tutkijana Firenzen EUI-yliopiston School of Transnational Governance -yksikössä.
Eurooppalainen Suomi -yhdistys valitsi Miettisen Vuoden eurooppalaiseksi 2021.[3] Hänen ansionaan on -
Helmi Kekkonen
Helmi Kekkonen (s. 1982) on valmistunut filosofian maisteriksi pääaineenaan yleinen kirjallisuustiede. Hän on opiskellut kirjoittamista Turun yliopiston luovan kirjoittamisen opinto-ohjelmassa ja Kriittisessä korkeakoulussa. Hänen esikoisteoksensa Kotiin julkaistiin 2009.
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Satu Rämö
My name is Satu Rämö. I'm a Finnish-Icelandic author of the nordic blue crime book series called HILDUR.
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Here you can find my interview in Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/books/202...
I was born in Finland in 1980 and moved to Iceland twenty years ago and started writing books.
I have published numerous bestselling, prizewinning non-fiction titles in my native Finland, ranging from travel guides to Iceland, to inspirational memoirs and an Icelandic knitting book.
My crime fiction debut Hildur (2022) changed the game for me as an author, totally. HILDUR-series is Icelandic-Finnish nordic blue crime fiction that takes place in a small village in the Westfjords of Iceland. Nordic blue is similar to nordic noir but more human. The stories ar -
Olga Ravn
Olga Sofia Ravn is a Danish poet and novelist. Initially she published poetry which was acclaimed by the critics, as was her first novel Celestine. She is also a translator and has worked as a literary critic for Politiken and several other Danish publications.
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Anni Kytömäki
Anni Kytömäki on palkittu suomalainen kirjailija. Koulutukseltaan hän on luontokartoittaja. Kytömäen esikoisteos Kultarinta oli ehdolla vuoden 2014 Finlandia-palkinnon ja Helsingin Sanomien esikoiskirjapalkinnon saajaksi. Kultarinta palkittiin Kaarlen palkinnolla, Tulenkantaja-palkinnolla ja Tampereen kaupungin kirjallisuuspalkinnolla. Margarita-romaani voitti vuoden 2020 Finlandia-palkinnon.
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Mikhail Shishkin
Mikhail Pavlovich Shishkin (Russian: Михаил Павлович Шишкин, born 18 January 1961) is a Russian writer.
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Mikhail Shishkin was born in 1961 in Moscow.
Shishkin studied English and German at Moscow State Pedagogical Institute. After graduation he worked as a street sweeper, road worker, journalist, school teacher, and translator. He debuted as a writer in 1993, when his short story "Calligraphy Lesson" was published in Znamya magazine. Since 1995 he has lived in Zurich, Switzerland. He averages one book every five years.
Shishkin openly opposes the current Russian government, calling it a "corrupt, criminal regime, where the state is a pyramid of thieves" when he pulled out of representing Russia at the 2013 Book Expo in the United States.
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Pajtim Statovci
Pajtim Statovci is a Kosovo-born Finnish author.
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FM Pajtim Statovci (s. 1990) on Suomen kansainvälisesti menestyneimpiä kirjailijoita. Kriitikoiden ja lukijoiden rakastamat romaanit, Kissani Jugoslavia ja Tiranan sydän, ovat saaneet englanninkielisessä maailmassa haltioituneen vastaanoton. Hänen teostensa käännösoikeuksia on myyty yli 15 kielialueelle. Statovci palkittiin esikoisromaanistaan Kissani Jugoslavia Helsingin Sanomien kirjallisuuspalkinnolla, ja Tiranan sydän voitti Toisinkoinen-kirjallisuuspalkinnon. Statovci asuu Helsingissä ja valmistelee Helsingin yliopistossa väitöskirjaa kirjallisuuden eläinrepresentaatioista.
Tiranan sydän (englanniksi Crossing) oli ehdolla arvostetun National Book Awards -palkinnon saajaksi. Bolla sai Finla -
Anna Soudakova
Anna Soudakova is a teacher of Finnish, French and Russian languages who lives in Vantaa, Finland.
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Zoulfa Katouh
All Zoulfa wanted was to lay in her bed and eat sliced mango all day long with no single thought in her mind, but now she has two jobs, scientist and author. She has girlbossed so close to the sun, that she's burning. She lost the original plot.
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Katri Ylinen
Katri Ylinen (s. 1990) on suomalainen tietokirjailija, podcastaaja, yhteiskunnallinen vaikuttaja sekä viestintä– ja tapahtuma-alan yrittäjä.
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Keväällä 2024 Ylinen on kertonut kirjoittavansa loppuvuodesta 2024 ilmestyvää tietokirjaa 1990-luvun saatananpalvontapaniikista.
Ylinen on tunnettu Ylen podcasteista Darravapaana ja Ehkä kaikki on hyvin, sekä esikoistietokirjastaan Aamu ilman darraa (2022). Ylinen on myös toiminut puheenjohtajana järjestössä Federation of Young European Greens, suomeksi Euroopan vihreät nuoret. Ylisellä on taustallaan kestävän kehityksen korkeakoulututkinto ja hän on valmistunut ympäristösuunnittelijaksi. -
Ian Garner
There is more than one author with this name on Goodreads; see also: Ian Garner
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Ian Garner is a historian and translator of Russian war propaganda.
He has written/been interviewed for the Washington Post, Rolling Stone, New York Times, BBC, CBC, CTV, ABC, YLE, Radio Canada, Mashable, Dainik Bhaskar, VICE News, Times Radio, and more.
His academic work focuses on Soviet and Russian literary and cultural representations of war. In his own words: "I am on a mission to illuminate the hidden sides of Soviet and Russian life - a world of thoughts and feelings hidden behind closed doors and the Iron Curtain - through engaging wider western audiences in recent academic discoveries."
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Judith N. Shklar
Judith Shklar was born as Judita Nisse in Riga, Latvia to Jewish parents. Because of persecution during World War II, her family fled Europe over Japan to the US and finally to Canada in 1941, when she was thirteen. She began her studies at McGill University at the age of 16, receiving bachelor of art and master of art degrees in 1949 and 1950, respectively. She later recalled that the entrance rules to McGill at the time required 750 points for Jews and 600 for everyone else. She received her PhD degree from Harvard University in 1955. Her mentor was the famous political theorist Carl Joachim Friedrich, who, she later recalled, only ever offered her one compliment: "Well, this isn't the usual thesis, but then I did not expect it to be." Ev
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Selja Ahava
Selja Ahava graduated with a degree in scriptwriting from the Theatre Academy of Helsinki in 2001. She has written film scripts, a TV series and a radio play. She has also written works that combine text, space and performance.
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Selja received a grant from the Laila Hirvisaari Foundation for her debut novel, The Day the Whale Swam Through London (orig. Eksyneen muistikirja). The purpose of this annual award is to support accomplished Finnish authors who are still at the start of their careers to write high quality, poignant books.
Selja has lived in London for five years, having since settled in Porvoo, where she spends her time renovating an old wooden house and raising her children. -
Timo Miettinen
Timo Miettinen (s. 26. maaliskuuta 1981) on eurooppalaiseen filosofiaan, politiikkaan ja aatehistoriaan erikoistunut akatemiatutkija ja Helsingin yliopiston dosentti.
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Miettinen väitteli tohtoriksi vuonna 2013. Hänen väitöskirjansa kuului filosofian alaan ja käsitteli Euroopan ideaa Edmund Husserlin ajattelussa (The Idea of Europe in Husserl's Phenomenology: A Study in Generativity and Historicity). Hän on väitöksensä jälkeen tutkinut muun muassa saksalaisen talouspolitiikan historiaa sekä modernin ajan Eurooppa-käsityksiä. Hän työskenteli vuonna 2023 vierailevana tutkijana Firenzen EUI-yliopiston School of Transnational Governance -yksikössä.
Eurooppalainen Suomi -yhdistys valitsi Miettisen Vuoden eurooppalaiseksi 2021.[3] Hänen ansionaan on -
Petteri Järvinen
Petteri Järvinen is a Finnish information technology expert, public speaker, author and a columnist.
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